Cultures Conference: The Building Blocks of a Mentoring Program Online
Cultures Conference Extended 2025 (Virtual program)
The Building Blocks of a Mentoring Program
Join us to learn about building a mentorship program in your library or organization. During this two part session we will spend time talking about the foundations of mentorship, explore different mentoring options, and take a deep dive into traditional mentoring and group and peer mentoring. After this session you will have the ability to explain the benefits of starting a mentoring program and create a plan of action to implement a mentoring program.
Presenters: Christine Kreger and Bailey Wallace
Christine Kreger is the Professional Development Consultant for the Colorado State Library. She has been involved in leadership training and mentoring for over ten years, including acting as co-chair of the Colorado Association of Libraries Mentorship Interest Group, which provides a wide variety of mentoring options for library staff statewide, since 2019.
Bailey Wallace is a Public Services Manager at Jefferson County Public Library. She has worked in libraries for over 10+ years in public, correctional, and academic library settings. In 2019 she helped start the Colorado Association of Libraries Mentorship Interest Group and served as the expert and coordinator for Group and Peer Mentoring.
Contact Hours (Maryland public libraries): 2.5 hours (for live attendance)
Please use your library/library organization email address to register.
This program presentation (only - not activities) will be recorded and posted to the Maryland Libraries Training Academy on Niche. The access requirement for the recording is a Maryland library work email address.
Zoom captioning and transcript are available for this program. For ASL interpreter requests, please contact Carlotta Davis, carlotta.davis@maryland.gov as soon as possible and no later than three weeks before the program.
- Date:
- Wednesday, February 19, 2025
- Time:
- 1:00pm - 3:30pm
- Time Zone:
- Eastern Time - US & Canada (change)
- Sponsor:
- Maryland State Library Agency (MSLA)
- Online:
- This is an online event. Event URL will be sent via registration email.
- Audience:
- Library Staff Library Staff - Public Libraries
- Categories:
- Communication Equity, Diversity, Inclusion, Accessibility Leadership Management & Supervision Talent Development